OF NEW ZEALAND. 1071 



lateral margins become indistinct behind, the sutural row, however, 

 forming a well-marked stria after the middle ; interstices simple. 

 The legs bear fine yellow setae. 



Length, 1J lines ; breadth, line. 



Clevedon. One example, from Mr. George Munro. 



Group-CORYLOPHID^E. 



Sacina, 



Nov. gen. 



Body ovate-oblong, moderately convex, pubescent. Antenna 

 comparatively elongate, apparently ten-jointed, club evidently 

 inarticulate. 



This genus approaches Sacium, but has not a five-jointed 

 antennal club. The tarsi are rather long, and furnished with much 

 villosity, so that their exact structure cannot be determined very 

 accurately, but the terminal joint is longer than the preceding ones, 

 the penultimate is minute, and the preceding one has an appendage 

 which extends forwards some distance below the apical one ; the 

 claws are moderately large, with a pair of basal dentiform projec- 

 tions. The head is small, and is entirely concealed above by the 

 anterior prolongation of the pronotum. The eyes are distinctly 

 facetted. The process of the prosternum is elevated, rather narrow, 

 and extends to the head ; the prosternum, in front, is provided with 

 two elongate transparent spaces. Coxa rather small, the anterior 

 contiguous, or nearly so ; the others widely separated. Metasternum 

 moderately elongate, quite truncate between the coxae. The basal 

 segment of the abdomen is about as large as the metasternum, with 

 a straight frontal suture ; the following four segments are short, the 

 sixth rather narrow. The elytra usually leave two apical ventral 

 segments uncovered. 



1913. S. oblonga, n.s. Ovate-oblong, moderately convex, with 

 distinct yellowish pubescence ; variegate-castaneous, femora fusco- 

 rufous, tibiae fulvescent, tarsi yellow, front of thorax pallid and more 

 or less transparent ; moderately shining. 



Thorax about half as long as the elytra, somewhat narrowed and 

 strongly rounded anteriorly, finely margined, base feebly sinuate ; 

 posterior angles a little prolonged backwards, so as to rest on the 

 shoulders, nearly acute ; the surface is very finely and rather dis- 

 tantly punctured. Scutellum distinct, rounded behind, with a few 

 minute punctures. Elytra slightly broader than the thorax, a little 

 narrowed posteriorly, apices broadly rounded and ciliated with very 

 fine greyish hairs ; the suture is a little raised behind the middle, 

 the surface is finely and regularly punctured, and there is a fine 

 sutural stria on each, which, however, is quite obliterated towards 

 the base. 



Underside finely sculptured, evidently pubescent. 

 7 PT. v. 



